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Synonyms for figurative
ˈfɪg yər ə tɪvfig·u·ra·tive

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. figurativeadjective

    Antonyms:
    literal

  2. figurativeadjective

    Antonyms:
    literal

  3. figurativeadjective

    Antonyms:
    literal

  4. figurativeadjective

    Antonyms:
    literal

  5. figurativeadjective

    Antonyms:
    literal

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. figurative

    Synonyms:
    metaphorical, poetical, tropical, rhetorical, symbolical, typical, emblematical

    Antonyms:
    literal, prosaic, unpoetical, unmetaphorical

Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 2 votes

  1. figurative, nonliteraladjective

    (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech

    "figurative language"

    Synonyms:
    nonliteral, figural

    Antonyms:
    explicit, nonrepresentational, denotative, literal

  2. figural, figurativeadjective

    consisting of or forming human or animal figures

    "a figural design"; "the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"- Herbert Read

    Synonyms:
    nonliteral, figural

    Antonyms:
    explicit, nonrepresentational, denotative, literal

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. figurativeadjective

    Synonyms:
    typical, representative, emblematical

  2. figurativeadjective

    Synonyms:
    tropical, metaphorical, not literal

  3. figurativeadjective

    Synonyms:
    flowery, florid, ornate

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.0 / 2 votes

  1. figurativeadjective

    Synonyms:
    typical, representative, emblematical, metaphorical, tropical

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "figurative":

    representational, fig

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#4362tropical
#25458rhetorical
#29450figurative
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#47483metaphorical
#58160figural
#60012poetical
#139360symbolical
#192701nonliteral

How to use figurative in a sentence?

  1. Salvador Dalí:

    We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

  2. Maxime Aubert:

    To me, the most fascinating aspect of our research is that humanity's oldest cave art is at least 44,000 years old and it already has all the key components relating to modern cognition, [ like ] hand stencils, figurative art, storytelling, therianthropes and religious thinking, so it must have a much older origin, possibly in Africa or soon after we left Africa.

  3. President Trump:

    And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore, of the over 10,000 words spoken, President Trump used the word' fight' a little more than a handful of times and each time in the figurative sense that has long been accepted in public discourse when urging people to stand and use their voices to be heard on matters important to them ; it was not and could not be construed to encourage acts of violence.

  4. Lauren McLean:

    The antisemitic messages contained in the graffiti found along the Greenbelt put a literal and figurative stain on Boise Parks and Recreation workers community. This will not be tolerated, hate speech is reprehensible. It is not who( Boise Parks and Recreation workers) are as a city and is not part of Boise Parks and Recreation workers shared values. I invite all good people of Boise to stand with me, as I stand with Boise Parks and Recreation workers Jewish neighbors, to rebuke this hate.

  5. Shaun Fletcher:

    We’re putting our athletes through a lot of painful literal and figurative hoops and hurdles with really no resolution at the end of it to tell them that this is the standard that is being set for competition, there needs to be a joint effort to determine the metric because athletics and institutions, they go off of metrics and standards that can be applied to the masses.


Translations for figurative

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  • مجازي, رمزي, استعاريArabic
  • образен, преносен, метафориченBulgarian
  • přenesený, obrazný, metaforickýCzech
  • im übertragenen Sinne, bilderreich, bildlich, symbolisch, metaphorisch, sinnbildlich, figürlich, übertragenGerman
  • μεταφορικόςGreek
  • figurado, figurativoSpanish
  • فیگوراتیوPersian
  • kuvaannollinenFinnish
  • figuratif, figuréFrench
  • samhlachailScottish Gaelic
  • átvitt, jelképes, átvitt értelemben, szimbolikus, képletesHungarian
  • figurativoItalian
  • 比喩Japanese
  • figurativoPortuguese
  • figurativRomanian
  • переносный, метафорический, образный, фигуральныйRussian
  • figurativSwedish
  • அடையாள அர்த்தமுள்ளTamil
  • mecaziTurkish
  • tượng trưngVietnamese

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